Diversity Club?

blinkangel44
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:57:04 +0000

I’ve been in my (nearly all-white, rather affluent) high school’s Diversity Club for all four years, and I am now on the Leadership Ring.

For those of you that have Diversity Clubs at your schools, what do you do?

All that we seem to do is talk and talk and talk. We never get anything substantial organized. (And our advisor is kinda clueless, but thinks she knows everything.) We want to consider all aspects of diversity (race, socioeconomic class, gender, and other things that aren’t quite as obvious based on outward appearance). My school just doesn’t get it, and we’re taken as a joke.

Part of the problem is that GSA gets all the attention. We do “Day of Silence” and other such events with them, but they get all the glory. We may be hosting a school-wide masquerade ball in the spring.

I’m just curious what other DCs do… I’d love to do something radical, like organize a huge protest of some sort of something… but I’d settle for any form of action :)